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About this Course

Precision Medicine For Your Practice is a series of short (20-30 min), online modules covering specific topics in genomics and precision medicine. In this module, Exploring Somatic Cancer Panel Testing, participants will learn about large somatic cancer panels, which test for dozens or hundreds of variants that may be driving cancer growth and suggest therapeutics targeted to the variants that are identified. When should these panels be used? And which patients are good candidates? Learn about benefits, limitations, and challenges of using large somatic cancer panels using the five parts of this module: overview information via an animated video; practice cases to facilitate learning-by-doing; "dig deeper" for more in-depth topics; and logistics and additional resources for more detail.

Disclosures

Release Date: December 20, 2016 Expiration Date: July 20, 2018

ObjectivesUpon completion of this educational activity, the learner will be able to:

Identify the types of clinical information that can be gained from large somatic cancer panels.

Determine how large somatic cancer panel results could be applied to patient care.

Target Audience

This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of practicing advanced practice nurses, physicians and physician assistants who provide oncology care.

CNE Approval Statement

The Jackson Laboratory is co-providing this continuing nursing education activity with the American Medical Association and Scripps Translational Science Institute. This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Northeast Multi-State Division (NE-MSD), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Claiming Your CreditIn order to claim credit 1) answer the pre-assessment questions, 2) work through the module content in its entirety, 3) successfully complete the post-assessment answering 2 out of 3 questions correctly and 4) complete the evaluation.

Nurses are eligible for a maximum of .5 contact hours upon the completion of this activity.

Unless otherwise noted, the program planners and faculty do not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this course.

The following disclosures are reported that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the education program:

In their roles as planners, Dr. McCarthy and Dr. Williams recused themselves from all deliberations relating to content related to the commercial entities with which they have a financial interest and will not be responsible for reviewing for bias the presentation of any faculty who share the same financial interests. All educational material has been peer-reviewed by external reviewers to assess for bias.